ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu Tisema 1, 2022 

DECLARE THE GLORY

TALA HONO LANGILANGI

PSALM 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

SAAME 19:1

KO E ngaahi langi ‘oku nau tala ‘a e nāunau‘ia ‘o e ‘Otua, Pea ‘oku fakahā ‘e he ‘atā ‘a e ngāue ‘a hono nima.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

The beauty of the heavens and the firmament invite men to admire the greatness of God and preach His wonderful works. [In the same psalm] David says that the days and nights commit to each other the duty of telling the glory of God. For who imagines that when we regard the beauty of the sky on a night that is serene, we are not in the least excited to admire and adore Him who made so many beautiful stars, or that when we see a fine day in the clear light of the sun, or even when our Lord sends us the showers to fertilize the earth so that it may bring forth plants, we are not likewise affected?

What conclusion ought we to draw from this, my dear friends, if not that we who are much more than the heavens and all else that has been created, because all else has been made for us and not for themselves, that we, by the good example which we give our neighbor, are much more capable of proclaiming the glory of God than are the heavens and the stars?

MARTIN LUTHER